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description: The incident is one which occupies a prominent place in the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia, and its result is almost always the same. Who acts: incident, result. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 135

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The incident is one which occupies a prominent place in the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia, and its result is almost always the same.

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**Who acts:** incident, result · **What happens:** be, occupy, result · **To what, where:** one, prominent place, stories

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident, result), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:23:135
# text = The incident is one which occupies a prominent place in the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia, and its result is almost always the same.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	occupies	occupy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the incident | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **occupy** | present |  | a prominent place |  | the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | incident's result |  |  |  |  | always, same *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **result** |  | incident |  |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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